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Jacques Soustelle

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French politician and member of the Resistance (1912-1990)

FranceAcademicsLived 1912 to 1990 · aged 78
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Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.

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1981Alfonso Reyes International Prize
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Resistance Medal
Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France
Medal of Freedom

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Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.

Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1990 · aged 78
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15 languages

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